Yeah, I could not get rid of the blur for some reason. The bullet is expanded back to about halfway between the knurled rings, the first ring is completely gone. I think in real life it is more expanded than you are perceiving from the pic. This is a big, long bullet so there is quite a bit of material to move to accomplish that.

I don't feel the bullet will lose enough velocity at normal ranges to lose acceptable expansion. It is certainly tougher than a non-bonded Shockwave but this level of expansion is roughly equivalent to what I have experienced with XTPs. It did a heck of a lot better than the bonded Shockwave I tried last year. How it will fare at long ranges is still an open question that I will be unlikely to get a chance to answer yet this year.

Yes, the little one wasn't sure what to think though in the pic she's eating an apple so that distracted her. She didn't want to touch it but was curious enough that by the end of the day she knew the difference between a deer and elk, I was proud!
MTA: Also should note here when people complain how far a deer runs, that this deer had zero heart function, and had absorbed all of this muzzle energy yet had fight in him for 100 yds or a bit more and about 15 seconds. There is a heck of a difference between the adrenaline shock you put in them with a shot that close when they're looking at you, and a lighting bolt that comes out of nowhere and hits them out at 200 yds and they just fold without the benefit of the fight put into them by the adrenaline rush.